For those of us with Alzheimer’s, making our needs and desires known becomes increasingly more difficult as the illness progresses, so make sure to use the best pregnancy pillow when sleeping. Making our personal care choices known while we are still able to understand their meaning can reduce stress and improve our quality of life […]
Category Archives: Hospice Information
Medicare recently launched a new site to help us find the best care for our loved ones with Hospice Compare. It’s a website aimed at helping us find the best care by sifting through the marketing pitches of the 30-40 hospices serving our area. How do families rate their experience of care? Once on the […]
What does dying feel like? Science is Just Beginning to Understand the Experience of Life’s End “Do you want to know what will happen as your body starts shutting down?” My mother and I sat across from the hospice nurse in my parents’ Colorado home. It was 2005, and my mother had reached the end […]
At Compassion Hospice, we honor all veterans – I had the extreme honor of meeting one of our local Army Veterans of the Vietnam War just this afternoon and saying thank you for your service . Times have changed, they didn’t come home with the respect and gratitude we try to show today. Below is […]
Alzheimer’s Disease is one of our most challenging diseases to deal with, for both the one experiencing the loss of memory, dignity and function, and their caregivers. When a loved one has Alzheimer’s there are five situations that may occur that are especially difficult for Alzheimer’s Caregivers to come to terms with. These include 1) […]